Iran has no stockpile of crude oil at sea and its floating gas condensates have all been sold, according to the Iranian Oil Terminals Company’s (IOTC) Managing Director, Seyyed Pirouz Mousavi.
Global shipping insurers have devised a way to ensure nearly full coverage for Iranian oil exports from Feburary after striking a deal to provide cover without involving US-domiciled reinsurers.
Sri Lanka is interested in purchasing oil and related products from the Islamic Republic of Iran, after resolving the outstanding financial issues between the two countries pertaining to previous purchases.
China has opened a line of credit, worth $1.3b, to finance the development of Abadan Oil Refinery, Iran’s oldest refinery in the southern Khuzestan Province.
Iran’s Head of National Petrochemical Company (NPC), Marzieh Shahdaei, said that five petrochemical projects are expected to go on stream by the end of the country’s current fiscal year in March 2017.